VOL. !X. NO. 14. } This Is the Place £ C To Buy Your Jewelry C C Nothing in Town to Compare WithS ( the < juality that We are Giving i ) Yon for the Low Price Asked. S C Quality and moderate prices makes a force that\ irresistibly draws into our store the best patronage r I of this section. Many years here in business, always J S with a lull line of goods above suspicion; chosen C 'with a care and judgment commensurate with its 5 \ desirability ond adaptability to rctinc taste, makes our store a s;ile place to invest. C 112 Repair work done on short notice and guaran-Q S. teed, by skilled workmen. Your orders appreciated. S RETTENBURY, > $ DUSHORE, pa. The JeweleH/^ COLE HARDWAR No Place Like this Place For Reliable STOVES and RANGES, COAL 012, WOOD HEATERS; ONE OF WINTER'S GREAT DELIGHTS. House FurnisWug Goods, Tools of Every Description, Guns and Ammunition. Bargains that bring the buyer back. Come and test the truth of our talk. A lot of second hand stoves and ranges for sale cheap. We can sell you in stoves anything from a fine Jewel Base Burner to a low priced but satisfactory cook stove. Hot Air, Steam and Hot Water Heating and General Repairing, Roofing and Spouting. The Shopbell Dry Good Co., 313 Pine Street, WILLI AM SPORT, PA. Snowy attract ive Muslin I'mlerware that combines so much comfort and beauty was never ottered at more attractive prices. All these garm ents are full size and splendidly made of excellent Muslin and Cambric. LONG SKIRTS. DRAWERS. SHORT SKIRTS. CHEMISE. CORSET COVERS. GOWNS. Shirtwaist Suits. Women's Stock Collars. Nothing daintier, nothing prettier \\'e, ve made a purchase of dainty nothing so economical as the two- stock Collars, an endless variety of piece summer suit. \\ e have ahout styles among them. Some are plain, every style that is worn. '1 hese are others embroidered. We have made of Percale, Madras, Linen and bunched them in lots, other cotton fabrics ami silks. 25c, 50e AND 75C. Wash Petticoats. C ° ol Summer Corsets. We believe thee Petticoats to be Now "".dels. Come and see them, better value than you ever bought We can recommend several makes before. They are mado of plain color at 50c lo - 00 that are ma,le of and fancy striped Seersucker vvitlt ]] % ht Batiste, but for those who rutiles or deep tucked flounces, at want finer Unities we have them SI.OO To $1.50 in better qualities. Black Taffetas and Peau de Soie. \\ hen asked for here I bey are shown in all qualities and widths and the prices are very reasonable when t lie qualities art? taken in consideration. Fancy Silks for Dresses. To merly mention the kinds and varieties of each would make a pretty long list so we simply say come and see them and get the prices. Subscribe for the News Item Republican News Item. LAPORTE, SULLIVAN COUNTY PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1904. ROAD IMPROVEMENT. A FEW FACTS FOR THE FARMERS TO CONSIDER. What CalayraTfi Highway! An Cwtlug Tlieut l'uu«lr iiellun Care •( Dirt Hu«da—Farm Wtgoua Should Have Wide Tlr«>. At uo time in the world's liistory has there beeu such au agitutiou 011 the question of roads us is going oil at the present time, says a writer in (Jood Kuads Magazine. People seem to be just awakeniut; from their lethargy into a realization that the old. ruat/. 11l kept highways of their fathers' time are not the means for traveling facilities. Ueuerally tlie farmer Is a cautious inau and must be faced with facta and be certain of success before lie will bestir himself. But when he views with clear, unbiased vision the losses from bad roads and then turns to the iutlueuce of good roads he gives bis hearty aid aud support to the work. He fiuds that bad roads cause Idlwusss to tesiusters during the win ter mouths aud that they make the cost of hauling three or four times greater than it should be. Perishable products are lost because of uo access to market, towns cauuot be reached when prices are good, aud the most profitable products ure often not grown ou this account. All this results from bad roads. Is It uot euough to move uuy farmer? Good roads, ou the other hand, make farm products more profitable. They economize tkue aud force lu transpor tutiou aud reduce wear aud tear ou horses, harness aud vehicles. They raise the value of furui laud aud make habitation ou it desirable. The eouutry Is beautified, aud rural mall delivery Is tuade possible, lu short, good roads aid the couutry commercially, socially aud educatioually. They will make a couutry Just as sure as bad roads will uuiuake it. A good road must be the easiest, shortest and most economical Hue of travel. It must have a dry level crown uud good surface aud soil draluage. Moreover, it should be as light lu grade us possible aud at aU seasoua be lu good condition. These are the thiugs we must work for. To beglu with, pur chase a grader aud a heavy roller of ■is or eight tons. These are the prlu plcal machines necessary for the work. First grade up the crown of the road little by little. 801l each layer thor oughly each time so that wheu the crown Is finished it Is firm aud solid from top to bottom. Wetttug the lay ers during the rolling often aids in bringing the soil particles into closer contact. The slope of the crown depends upon the grade of the road. Ou ibe level the slope should be one foot iu twenty, trhlle on the hillside a little steeper. Ou a very steep hill broad and shallow depressions can be made tn deflect the water luto the side ditchus. hut this should be done only wheu necessary. It is a serious menace to traffic. Now, after the crown has bevu finished the next thing to attend to is the ditches. These ditches may be dug out with the point of the cutting blade of the grader or, better, be dug with scrapers. These ditches should be broad and rather shallow, so that a vehicle will not upset ou dririug luto one of thena. By being large they quickly carry away the sur face water iu flood time and do not leave It on the surface to soften the foundation of the road. Now, when the soil, freed from per ishable mutter, has been rolled as hard as possible aud when the ditches con form to the requirements, only oue tiling remains to complete the road. This is drainage, the factor which Is to solve the problem of dirt road bulid lug. When the crown is rolled and ■loped properly awl the ditches dug, surface drainage is disposed of, but un derdraluage must be considered. Its duty Is to take up the soil water and preserve a solid aud firm foundation for the road. It Is out of sight, yet its lutlueuce is very beneficial. These drains are laid the loug way of the road Just luside the storm ditch aud outside the rolled crown. All of the water that escapes from the ditches sooner or later must enter the drain aud be carried away. Besides these main drains laterals may be laid at lutervals under the crown Itself, but In a properly constructed road they are not at all necessary. Further thus draining the road s great deal of care must be taken iu regard te grade. No greater load can be hauled over a road than can be drawn up Its steepest hill. The grade of ue road sheuld be more than 5 per cent, sud the leee the bet ter. If all this is |»roperly carried out. we will have a smooth, level road, ready to te used immediately. Bat. as with anything else, roads need care aud at tention. Farmers, wheu they ouce have spent their moner is building thepe roads, should do everythiug lu their power te preserve them. Nothing will help in this more than the general use of wide tires lu hauling heavy loads. Wide tires do uot cut la as de uarrew ones, but they act as rvttera. and the crown becomes better peeked the mere traffic there is on It. Besides this, seme person should be placed in charge of every sectlou of road In the township to ksep it Lu perfect condition. The roads should be insisted daily and every rut and hole filled up. A spade ful of material will fill a hole one day. while a wagon load would not mend It a week afterward. Tkey Comma Hl«t. Bad roads are expensive from any polut of view. Kach year they coat this couutry more money than would build a first class highway half across the continent, to say nothlug of the anuoy ance and discomfort which must be experienced by the millions who are obliged to use them. OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. Misapprehensions Concerning the Grange Corrected. First.—"lt costs too much." The cost compared with the benefits Is but a trifle. The revenues could not be reduced without crippling the work. Other farmers' organisations have been started ou a cheaper scale, and they failed, iu part at least, for want of funds. Second.—"Too much ceremony for busy farmers." Its ceremony is not cumbersome. Ceremony is aklu to system, and sys tem is essential to success In any call ing. The best drilled soldier is the most efficient In battle, and the most skilled artisan draws the highest pay. The grange ritual teaches beautiful and Impressive lessons throughout. None can learu them aud not be made better. Third.—"lt is a secret society." It Is a secret only In the sense of being private. It Is uot an oath bound society. It is no more secret than Is a well regulated family or many branches of the Christian church. All of these conduct their private business In private. Were the grange less se cret and less conservative it would doubtless long since have gone the way that other farmers' organisations have gone. They came into being aft er the grange, proposing to eilmluate what their promoters called the objec tionable features of the grange—cere mony, secrecy, conservatism and cost. They died, but the grange still lives. Fourth.—"But the grange uses signs." Who does not? AU use them because they are often more expressive and impressive than words, and because they can be seen and heard where words cannot Wheu any one calls at a private house he raps on the door or rings the bell. No one ever claimed thatt there was any moral wrong In this. Would It be wrong if by rupplng a certain number of times or in a cer tain way he could tell to those Inside who was without? What could armies, or railroad, or mines, or factories, or anybody or anything do without signs? Was uot the Jewish and is uot the Christian religion typical throughout? Bed Book, Pennsylvania State Orange. A HINT TO LECTURERS. Haw Ue Yon Get Backward Mem bers to Heapoadf In response to the above question we have received the following from Ohio lecturers: Quotations or pennies. By Inducing them to ask questions. By allowing them to talk while sit ting. By allowing them to select their owu subject. Encourage regular attendance and time will do the rest. By assigning them subjects in which they are interested. By bunting up a selection and plac iug It lu their bands to read. By occasionally imposing a fine of 5 cents for failure to respond. By deftly turning the trend ol' the discussion upon their bobby. By asklug them direct questions to be answered then and there. By keeping the thought before them that they can dt> tf they try. By giving them something that they cau do and not too hard for them. By giving them questions that can be answered by yes or no for a starter. By Insisting that each member pres ent say something upon a subject un der dlscussloti. By studying each member's inclina tions and assigning them subjects ap propriate to the sume. By only asking them to respond when 1 think something so interests tbeui that they can't sit still. By writing a number of from quarterly slips, having euch one draw out one and answer. By Impressing them with the fact that they are capable of executing auy part assigned them and thut they should cast aside all fear, for we ar« all brothers and sisters.—Lecturer. A Traat to Ftgkt. William B. Hearst's energies Will probably be directed against that trust wbieh puts the average price of votes up to 99,833, and diminishes the out put to 190.—Springfield Union. The Order Im Maine. Maine has reason to be proud of her growth lu number of granges and their large average membership. While that state has but about 350 subordinate granges, in total membership she ranks third in the Union. Seventy-four per cent of her own their own halls, and these cost from $2,000 to >7. OU) each. W IfILLSGROVE. Cyrus Haines while working in the construction gang here on the , Sones 1 Railroad, fell on the bit of I his ax last week and received a ter rible gash, which will lay him up ! for some time, r 4 W. 11. Biddle has purchased a new driving horse. Geo. Brombeek of North Bend is visiting his parents at this place. Harry Green of this plaee, has i raised some of the finest potatoes i'Vi*r seen on these flats. He will | have some of them on exhibition at the Forksville Fair, | Ed. MeCan has returned from the I St. Louis fair and reports a good ttrne. Albert Lorah is attending the P.O. S. of A. Convention at Chester this week. Hillsgrove will cross hats with Forksville next Saturday on the Base I ball grounds, atthis place- Mrs. Tillie Vargonson of Estella is visiting at G. Lewis, on the Pike. The game of Ball between Proctor vi lie and this place was postponed on account of rain, and will be played this coming Wednesday. Game called at 4 P. M. Chas. Sullivan was a visitor at Williamsport last week. Al>out twenty-five or thirty people irom this place attended the revival services at Estella Sunday. Bev. Brady of Scrunton and Rev Bowen of < Iranville Center were the ministers in attenedance. There was unite an exeitemen t on lower Poland St.most commonly known as Murderer's Bow, about midnight Saturday, among a lot of Poles. After filling up with stale beer to the amount of about a barrel a fight took place. While about iw dozen or so of the crowd went into" do up a Pole, who is somewhat of a desperate character known by the name of Black George, and when they had hammered him into insen sibility, they then threw him through a window into the garden. Dr. Da vies ol' Forksville is in attend ance. About thirty people from this city aitended the tent meeting at Estella Sunday. G. \V. Brumbeck and fnMily of Gleasonton Pa. are viaiting Mr. Baumbecks parents at It! Rural Ave. Proctor v. s. Silver Slippers la>t Saturday, no game—rain. Rumor has it that the first excurs ion from Hillsgrove to Eaglesmere via. sones Kail road will he run next Sunday. Hillsgrove and Forksville will cross bats on the local diamond Sat rday next, on this occasion the fan atics from both places have promised to bury the hatchet. Sunday ball games are becoming very popular at Mt. Vesuvious and we noticed several of the Silver Slip bers absent from Sunday School late ly—break it off boys. Our progressive confectioner, A. J. Brong, abvertises Peanuts free. Recently we were rubber earing at the phone and we heard the foll owing conversation between the managers of the Hillsgrove and Ber nice Base Ball teams. "Hello Ber nice, how would you like to arange a game with us some time soon?" Oli, you people are too far off we can get games with Dushore, To watida, and Wilkesbarre." "(rood By." A few weeks later we happened to be enjoying the same pass time, when Bern ice cut in with the following, "Hello Hillsgrove. Is that Hillsgrove?" "Say, Hills grove, can you give us a game next Saturday?" "No, you are too far off, we can get games with William sport or any other Jown in Lycom ing County." Now we would raise the question as to whether the managers are not doing an in justice to the patrons of sport at both | towns, by allowing a little spite on , liotli sides, to keep the Coal Barons land Silver slipp«r-> from rubbing : noses. 75 TS. PER YEAR ESTELLA. Last Monday evening Mr. John Lit/lonian anil Miss Muble May met with quite a mishap on the dugroad between Wesly Lewis and t has. \ urbason. The horse became un manageable, backing them oft Hit* road, precipitating the young lady into Mr. Vargason's potito patch. Luckily no other serious damages re sulting. Mr. J. MeCaddon and children of Williamsport are visiting his sister Mrs. Squire Bird also Mrs. Bird's Mother from Brooklyn N. V. is visiting her. Mrs. Geo. Betts and daughter of Williamsport, are visiting the lady's parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. <;. plotts. Floyd More who has been in Pot ter county is visiting his parents here and nursing a badly cut foot. Boyd Osier made a trip to Dushore after his engine which was left there for repairs, preparatory to beginning threshing. Mr. and Mrs. John Hess are en tertaining the former's brother of Columbia county. Several loads from Hillsgrove at tended the tent meeting here, and among them we noticed 11. Green, Mrs. 8. S. Woman and granddaugh ter, Win. Gumble and family, Ed Ilotlmaii and family, Andrew (ia lough and wife, and many others. The tent meetings are well attend ed. Last Sunday Rev. Bo wen im mersed live converts. There has been several additions to the Decip les congregation also. Revs. Boweu and Brady expect to return to their homes the last of this week, but the probabilities are that the meetings will continue under the leadership of Itev. Blair who arrived Monday from Canton with Rev. Saylcs. Tin leaving pastors have made many warm triends who wish theui a hearty return to lOstella, when the convention is again held here one ; year from this month. The large i tent was tilled to its fullest capacity and many stood outside Sunday evening. It was estimated that there were four hundred people in attendance. SHVNK. •Still hot and dry, but before long it will be wet and cold, be prepared for it. 0 how the dance goes on! Since I'ayne, Isaac and Clarence have re turned from the army, receptions are frequent. 1 here was a Kilmer reunion in Frey's Grove, August l!»th which was attended by a large crowd,there being about two hundred who took dinner.The dinner,music and speak ing was tine. The Wilcox reunion will be held in Hosiers grove next Friday, and we anticipate a larger turn out than at any of the other reunions. Not only Sullivan, but Bradford county will also be represented. \\. 11. Fanning, who has spent last two weeks at the Bath cure in Kiniira, has returned home much improved in health, and advises all who are similarly afflicted to try it. Delos Hoagland who has been in the poor house of Bradford county has returned to his father's place, rhe poor masters of this town took charge of him and placed him where lie rightly belongs. Dr. W. F. Randall Meels With Serious Accident at His Coal Mines. I»r. W. F. Randall, of Dushore was seriously injured on Friday of last week, while inspecting his coal mines, near Lopez. A large stick of timber fell from above, in the drakcr, striking the Doctor on the head, and glanceing off to the shoot er. The result is a badly cut head ind a broken shoulher, and a very narrow escape from instant death. He was taken to his home and made as comfortable as possible, but will be several weeks before he can resume his practice. The Frir. Premium lists of the I orksville Fair have been sent out over the county, and from all indications the affair promises to be ayr -at success this year. (food premiuns are offered and everybody that can should take an interest. Th«» fair will be held October Kb.. ">th , and tith.
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